Last weekend, we finished planting ground cover plants in our front yard. The middle of the plot is filled with begonias and impatiens, with many colors of coleus around the edges. Last year ...

Ground cover plants are usually low-growing perennial plants. They come in a lot of varieties, such as flowering creeping thyme or evergreens like creeping juniper. The most obvious reason to ...

Ground cover plants can replace grass lawns with edible alternatives. Spearmint is a hardy, fast-growing perennial herb that reaches one to three feet in height. The leaves are tender and fragrant ...

They are known to be low-growing plants which spread a foliage on the ground, some even bring in an abundant array of colorful flowers. Best of all, these ground cover plants can grow quickly and ...

As most gardeners know, clearing an area of weeds without installing a new plant is an open invitation to more unwanted plants. Planting an area of open soil with a fast-growing ground cover that ...

Fruiting ground cover plants are useful for suppressing weeds and unwanted growth, conserving moisture, and reducing evaporation from the soil. They can also fulfill a range of other ecosystem ...

You’re tired. We’re tired. It’s time to consider an attractive, low-maintenance alternative by replacing your lawn with ground cover plants that don’t require any mowing at all.

You can’t live without it. Some have described ground covers as “garden thugs” or even worse, since they can brutally bully plants in their vicinity, to the point of suffocating or even ...